For anyone doing C, C++ and/or Python development, I want to make sure you see ARROW-1401, which generates "stack traces" from error Statuses:
../src/arrow/ipc/ipc-read-write-test.cc:609: Failure Failed NotImplemented: ../src/arrow/ipc/ipc-read-write-test.cc:574 code: writer->WriteRecordBatch(batch) ../src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc:778 code: CheckStarted() ../src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc:755 code: schema_writer.Write(&dictionaries_) ../src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc:730 code: WriteSchema() ../src/arrow/ipc/writer.cc:697 code: WriteSchemaMessage(schema_, dictionary_memo_, &schema_fb) ../src/arrow/ipc/metadata-internal.cc:651 code: SchemaToFlatbuffer(fbb, schema, dictionary_memo, &fb_schema) ../src/arrow/ipc/metadata-internal.cc:598 code: FieldToFlatbuffer(fbb, *schema.field(i), dictionary_memo, &offset) ../src/arrow/ipc/metadata-internal.cc:508 code: TypeToFlatbuffer(fbb, *field.type(), &children, &layout, &type_enum, dictionary_memo, &type_offset) Unable to convert type: decimal(19, 4) This is implemented using macros, and can be turned on with -DARROW_EXTRA_ERROR_CONTEXT=ON. It will increase compiled code size and probably make performance worse in release builds (it would be nice to know by how much), so it is not enabled by default. We could also implement this using stack unwinding, but this has the benefit of being simple and also platform independent. - Wes
